DescriptionVoyager 2 and Sirius motions from side.png
English: Approximate paths of Voyager 2 and the star Sirius over the next 296,000 years, viewed from the ecliptic plane looking towards the Vernal point. The Sun is in the centre; the yellow shell has a radius of ten light years centred on the Sun; Sirius is the white disc at the left (size exaggerated for clarity); the long white diagonal line is about 18 light years long and depicts the proper motion of Sirius for the next 296,000 years; the red arrow depicts the approximate path of Voyager 2 (simplified as a straight line, in reality it would trend slightly steeper and curve very slightly); the small white and red spots right of centre right depict Alpha and Proxima Centauri.
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derived from Paul Stansifer's POV-Ray source files (see below), by me, 84user, using w:en:POV-Ray, and w:en:IrfanView.
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